Why is the magpie, known as the Annunciation Bird , now the most hated by everyone?

Magpie is one of the birds that many friends like, because magpies are considered to represent good luck in the folk, if you meet a small magpie on the side of the road when you are a child, you will be happy for a long time, and you feel that you can definitely encounter some good things on this day. Why is the magpie, known as the "Annunciation Bird", now the most hated by everyone?

The magpie known as the "Annunciation".

I don't know when I found that the magpie has become black and white now, I remember that the magpies when I was a child were gray and white, although the call was not very pleasant, but it was everywhere, and the gray magpie was accompanied by more sparrows, and the turtle doves were relatively few. Magpies have a saying of Angelo in the folk, and the general public will not disturb their lives, only ignorant children, often look up everywhere to look for birds' nests, or chase with slingshots.

At that time, many rural families liked to build a nest on the tree from which the magpie came, hoping that the magpie could bring good luck and good luck to their family. is also to the children at home, repeatedly instructed, no matter how naughty it is, don't go to the magpie's nest. However, with the change of the ecological environment in recent years, there have been more and more magpies in our mountain villages in recent years.

There are so many villagers that they start to hate magpies. Why is that?

Why is it now the most hated by everyone?

There is actually a reason why magpies are hated by some farmers, and this still has to start with the eating habits of magpies, which are very mixed, and we can often see magpies looking for food in parks, farmlands and other places. The magpie's menu is very complex, the small ones are ants, locusts, beetles, flies, mosquitoes and other small insects, and the big ones will eat chickens, snakes, eggs, bird eggs, in addition to eating these insects and small animals, magpies will also eat a variety of grains, such as corn, rice, soybeans, etc., and will also eat fruits, such as apples, watermelons, etc. In this way, it seems that the little magpie is indeed very miscellaneous.

In addition to peanuts, there are also those beans, corn. It is often caught by magpies and eaten, and farmers generally have to replant 2 or 3 times before making up for it. It leads to irregular growth of agricultural roles.

Some are precocious, but some have not yet blossomed and fruited, and cannot be harvested at the same time. As a result, the utilization rate of cultivated land rotation is low.

The reason why people hate magpies now is because they cause a series of pests and diseases, and they eat some of the fruits of our orchards, which can harm the interests of the people and farmers.

It is because this animal destroys the crops of farmers that it has become the most hated by everyone.

Origin of the magpie's name:

Legend has it that the magpie was originally a fairy bird in the heavenly palace, called magpie. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl cross the Tianhe River to meet, which is the bridge built by the magpies, commonly known as the "Magpie Bridge Meeting".

One year, the Cowherd said to the Weaver Girl that the Jade Emperor sent Taurus to the earth and sprinkled some grass seeds on the earth, and the earth was green everywhere, but there was a lack of flowers and trees, and the world was not very beautiful. When the magpies heard this, they told the Queen Mother about it. The Queen Mother listened to Que'er's request and thought, the Jade Emperor sent Taurus to sprinkle grass seeds in the world, and he had a good reputation, why don't I let the Hundred Flowers Fairy send some flower seeds to the world, so that the name will be immortal?

But the queen mother was reluctant to give up the winter plum, and repeatedly told the flower fairy: a hundred flowers are scattered, and the plum blossoms are left alone! Since then, the earth of the earth has bloomed from spring to autumn, but there are no flowers in winter.

After the magpies discussed, they stole a plum sapling and sent another magpie to the world. Since then, there have been plum blossoms on the earth. Because the moon pants bloom at that time, people call it "winter plum" or "wax plum".

When the Queen Mother found out about this, she ordered the legs of the magpie who sent Mei to be tied and put in a cage and confined. Since then, Magpie has also practiced the ability to jump. Later, the three-legged bird, who was in charge of the birds in the heavenly palace, learned of this incident and sympathized with the magpie and took the risk of opening the cage and letting it go.

This magpie flew to the world, saw the plum blossoms, jumped between the plum branches, and "chirped" non-stop.

This plum tree was planted in a rich man's garden, and the young lady coincided with the wedding day, and according to local customs, the girl was "crying and marrying" on the embroidery floor. Suddenly, the cries of magpies flew in through the window. The girl heard some unknown sounds, and went to the window and looked out into the garden.

She saw a bird on the plum branch that she had never seen before, with beautiful feathers, a pleasant call, and a light dance. The girl was happy for a moment, so she took scissors and red paper, and cut it into a window flower in the same way as the magpie and the plum blossoms. At this time, the family came to urge the girl to get on the sedan chair quickly.

The girl took the freshly cut window grille and said to herself, "What kind of bird ...... is this?"The fast-talking girl hurriedly said: "Today's big joy, the girl is happy, let's call it a magpie!"

The girl got into the sedan chair and arrived at her mother-in-law's house, and the window grilles she cut were also carried with the dowry. The man's family opened a dyeing workshop, and the head of the family saw that the new daughter-in-law's "magpie Dengmei" window flower was cut very well, so he followed the painting and added a magpie, which means that it is a pair of pairs, and double happiness is coming. After the painting is finished, it is engraved on the cardboard paper with a hollow technique, the white cloth is placed under the cardboard paper, the soybean milk surface is brushed on it, the cloth is boiled in the dyeing pot, and the batter is washed and dried.

Since then, there has been a calico of "Magpie Denmei" with white flowers on a blue background.

This kind of chaotic reputation scum method has been in the Spring and Autumn Period (see introduction), but the specific reason is no longer verifiable, one thing is certain, that is, this statement is full of superstition, it is difficult for people at that time to explain it with science, but this statement has been continued for thousands of years, I have to say that there is always a certain truth, now try to analyze it:

1. The magpie is a resident bird that stays in the local area and does not leave, has a certain territory, likes to build a nest in an open high place, and the surrounding movement is easy to find. If an abnormality is detected in the vicinity, a warning will be sounded. For the ancients, social activities were not abundant, and usually no strangers came to the door, and if a stranger came to the door of a large family, many of them were to inform good things (such as announcing appointments or awarding quiet prizes), and the magpies in the high places must have seen the ...... of the civil servants who moved the crowd to the doorOut of the instinct of vigilance, it will cry out.

2. Magpies are more active on sunny days, and their calls are more frequent and louder, and people will be refreshed when they encounter good weather.

3. Magpies like to perch in high places, and the ancients took the meaning of climbing high and climbing high branches, believing that it is a symbol of auspicious official luck.